County: Down Site name: Downpatrick Museum, Downpatrick
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/09/219
Author: Jonathan Barkley, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY.
Site type: Medieval to modern
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 748269m, N 844592m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.328476, -5.720377
Monitoring of the foundation trenches for the extension showed that the area at the rear of the museum had previously been filled using a greyish-brown, silty earth and rubble. Numerous artifacts were recovered from the infill, with the pottery ranging in date from the medieval to modern period. A small 16th-century Portuguese glass bead, similar to those found in the Girona/Trinidad objects (Spanish Armada), was also discovered.
